Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

Hope, like the gleaming taper